Poster Presentations

2025 Aspire Convention

Poster Presentations

Poster presentations were available for viewing during the convention, and were spotlighted during the Poster Reception on Wednesday, April 30. Posters are broken down by the following six educational tracks: collaborative partnerships, competency management, education, inquiry, onboarding & orientation, and role developmentUse the quick links below to view this year's sessions listed by track or by academy. Sessions subject to change.

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Onboarding & Orientation

Escaping Orientation: A Patient-Centered Escape Room To Increase Nurse Engagement

Audience Level: Competent

  • Cindy Cronin, MSN, RN, NPD-BC; Julia Ferguson, DNP, RN, CNE, CHSE, NPD-BC

Utilizing Phased Orientation to Enhance Compliance With Transplant Regulatory Standards

Audience Level: Competent

  • Amanda Stephens, BSN, RN, CCTC

Energizing Gen Z: Taking the Pain Out of Pain Workshops

Audience Level: Expert | Sub-Track: Technology

  • Lara Wohlgemuth, MSN, BS, RN, NPD-BC; Rachel Kromer, MSN, RN, NPD-BC, NEA-BC; Victoria Petit, MSN, RN, FNP-C

Time is Precious: Improving NPD and Learner Efficiency Through Digitization

Audience Level: Competent | Sub-Track: Technology

  • April Graham, MSN, RN, RNC-NIC, NPD-BC; Kindsey Gattman, MSN, RN, NPD-BC, RNC-OB

Utilization of Tiered Skills Acquisition Model for Inpatient APP Orientation

Audience Level: Competent

  • Christopher Reeves, MSN, CNP, AGACNP-BC, NPD-BC; Brienne Leary, MSN, RN, CPNP-PC/AC, CCRN; Jacqueline Scully, MSN, RN, CPNP; Katherine Woodard, MSN, RN, CPNP, CPHON

Homeward Bound: Finding Your Ideal Unit Through a Rotational Journey

Audience Level: Competent | Sub-Track: Healthy Work Environment

  • Livia Altland, BSN, RN, OCN

Improving International Travel Nurse Transition through Residency Program

Audience Level: Competent Sub-Track: Diversity & Inclusion

  • Dawn Profit, PhD, RN; Rachel Bentley, DNP, RN, CCRN, NDP-BC, RHIA

Revamp & Recharge: Revolutionizing Orientation and Tackling New Hire Engagement!

Audience Level: Competent

  • Sarah Quadrato, MSN, RN, NPD-BC, RNC-OB, RNC-MNN, C-EFM; Kathleen Yoder, MSN, RNC-OB, RNC-MNN, RNC-IAP, CLC, C-EFM

Engaging Pediatric Graduate Nurses Using Team-Based Learning

Audience Level: Competent

  • Taylor Moore, BSN, RN, CPN; Eileen Devine, DNP, RN, NPD-BC, CPN

Adapting Nursing Orientation Utilizing a Tiered Skills Acquisition Model

Audience Level: Competent Sub-Track: Leadership

  • Tabitha Whetham, BSN, RN; Sarah Gallagher, MSN, RN

Competency Management 

Oh Sheath! Optimization of Arterial Sheath Removal in Inpatient Settings

Audience Level: Competent | Sub-Track: Leadership

  • Jean Carraher, DNP, RN, NPD-BC, NE-BC, CCRN; Kimberly Stewart, MSN, RN, NPD-BC; Thomas Zasmeta, BSN, RN, CCRN

Competency Ninjas: Max Efficiency, Full Buy-In, and Budget Bliss!

Audience Level: Competent Sub-Track: Healthy Work Environment

  • Courtney Cromer, BS, MS, BSN, CCRN, CV-BC; Daniel Kerr MSN, RN-BC, CNML, CCRN

EPAs: Operationalizing Competency-Based Education; Elevating Competency Through Entrustment

Audience Level: Competent Sub-Track: Healthy Work Environment

  • Elizabeth Dasher, DNP, RN, CCRN

Chemo Land: Gaming Approach to Engage Nurses in Specialty Training

Audience Level: Novice Sub-Track: Healthy Work Environment

  • Kayla Anderson, MSN, RN, CMSRN, OCN, NPD-BC

Strengthening the Connection Across the System Through Standardized Nursing Competencies

Audience Level: Competent

  • Jessica Kaplan, MSN-Ed, RN, RNC-NIC

Bullseye! Targeted Education Maximizes Satisfaction and Return on Investment

Audience Level: Competent

  • Shannon Bowling, PT, DPT, GCS

Education 

Bridging the Educational Gap: Transitioning to Mixed Acuity Units

Audience Level: Competent

  • Judy Strubin, MSN, RN, NPD-BC; Mel Brouillette, MSN, RN, CCRN

Focused Rounding: Identifying and Reducing Practice Gaps in Ambulatory Settings

Audience Level: Competent

  • Vicki Weiss, DHA, MSN, BSN, RN, NPD-BC

Creating a Virtual Learning Community in a Multi-Site Organization

Audience Level: Competent Sub-Track: Technology

  • Grace Carcich, MSN, RN, NPD-BC; Shawn Sullivan, MSN, RN

Delivery Room Simulations to Enhance Interunit Collaboration and Patient Outcomes

Audience Level: Competent | Sub-Track: Healthy Work Environment

  • Alessia Tozzi, BSN, RN, RMC-MNN, EFM-C; Lauren Libhart, MSN, RN

Maximizing NCPD Activities: Driving Efficient Capture for Outcomes with Impact

Audience Level: Competent Sub-Track: Technology

  • Stephanie Fassett, MSN, RNC-OB, C-EFM, NPD-BC; Marci Ayers MSN, RN, CMSRN, NPD-BC; Michelle Yeatts, MSN, RN, CEN, NPD-BC

Getting it RightVax: Ambulatory Immunization Training Program

Audience Level: Competent Sub-Track: Leadership 

  • Anne Mihay, RN, BSN, CPN, PED-BC

Brainstorm: The Stroke Escape Room

Audience Level: Novice

  • Samantha Mishler, BSN, RN, NPD-BC, CCRN; Carolanna Siegfried MSN, RN, CCRN; Christian Stasny MSN, RN, CMSRN

It’s Not That Bad: Improving NCPD Process Outcomes

Audience Level: Competent Sub-Track: Technology

  • Ann Marie Grillo Darcy, MSN, RN, CNS, ACNS-BC, NPD-BC; Kendra Bruce MSN, RN

The Future is Now: Enhancing Nursing Education with Virtual Reality.

Audience Level: Competent Sub-Track: Technology

  • Lourdes Angela Manga Ramos, MSN, RN, AMB-BC

Aspire from Within: Back-to-Basics Training That Works

Audience Level: Competent

  • Mary Diane Co-Solana, BSN, RN, NPD-BC, SCRN, CNRN; Florissa Lew, MSN RN, CCRN Mirna X Diaz, MSN RN

Designing Equitable and Inclusive Education Experiences

Audience Level: Novice Sub-Track: Diversity & Inclusion

  • Kim Weber Yorga, RN, MSN, NEA-BC

Shock and Awe: Improving Caregiver Performance Through In-Situ Resuscitation Simulation

Audience Level: Competent

  • Anne C. Johnson, BSN, RN, MEDSURG-BC

A CNA Training Program's Impact on CNA Recruitment and Retention

Audience Level: Competent

  • Jeanne Thomas, EdD, MSN, RN, NPD-BC; Danielle Dombkowski, MSN, RN, CNL

Providing Easy Access Education Through QR-Linked Microlearning Resources

Audience Level: Novice Sub-Track: Technology

  • Ashley Simpson, MSN, RN

Role Development

NPD Academy: Crafting a Program for Boosting NPD Practitioner Self-Efficacy

Audience Level: Expert Sub-Track: Leadership

  • Jolene Dorrell, DNP, RN, NPD-BC, NE-BC

Educating the Experienced Preceptor

Audience Level: Competent

  • Lillian Donnelly, DNP, RN, NPD-BC, NE-BC

Aspire to Lead: Increasing Self-Confidence in Novice Nurse Leaders

Audience Level: Competent | Sub-Track: Leadership

  • Adina Garner, MSN, RN, NPD-BC, RNC-OB

WISE Workshops: NPD Role Development Through Wisdom, Inspiration, Support, Enculturation

Audience Level: Expert | Sub-Track: Leadership

  • Jennifer Street, BSN, BS-Ed, RN, CPN, NPD-BC; Allison Moran-Wasklewicz, MS

Furthering our Colleagues by Developing an LPN Professional Development Pathway

Audience Level: Competent | Sub-Track: Healthy Work Environment

  • Liz Holbert, MSN, RN; Sarah Mauldin, MSN, RN

Providing Structured Support for Preceptors of Nursing Students in Ambulatory

Audience Level: Competent | Sub-Track: Leadership

  • Mary McDaniel, MSN, RN; June Fouse MSN/Ed, RN, NPD-BC

Taking Charge- Aspiring to Prepare our Frontline Leaders

Audience Level: Competent | Sub-Track: Leadership

  • Ashley Britsch, MSN, RN, CMSRN, NPD-BC; Miriam Battista DNP, RN, CCRN, CPN, NPD-BC

Investing in Preceptors: One Organization’s Successful, Sustainable Ambulatory Preceptor Program

Audience Level: Competent | Sub-Track: Healthy Work Environment

  • Crystal Anthony-Mills, MSN, RN, NPD-BC

Chasing Credentials: The Amazing Race to Board Certification

Audience Level: Competent

  • Patricia Shafer, MSN, RN, NPD-BC; Claire Hackelberg, MN, BA, RN, NPD-BC, CNL

Collaborative Partnerships 

Transformative Collaborations: Enhancing Practice for Gender Diverse Patient Care

Audience Level: Competent | Sub-Track: Diversity & Inclusion

  • Misty Cahoon, MSN, RN, NPD-BC

Collaborative Partnerships in Organ Donation: Enhancing Outcomes Through Interprofessional Education

Audience Level: Competent | Sub-Track: Leadership

  • Ashley Vieira, MSN, RN, NPDA-BC, CCRN

Nurses Improving Care for Healthsystem Elders (NICHE): Fall Reduction Project

Audience Level: Competent | Sub-Track: Diversity & Inclusion

  • Woodlyne Pierre-Lallemand, MSN, RN, MEDSURG-BC, GERO-BC, NPD-BC, CNL, PMGT-BC; Vincenza Coughlin, PhD(c), MS, RNC-MNN, CNE, NPD-BC, NEA-BC; Waitline Williams, PhD, MPA, RN, NPD-BC

Increasing Dashboard and Data Engagement To Promote Best Practice

Audience Level: Competent 

  • Lauren Marolda, MSN, RN, FNP-BC, OCN

Revitalizing Nursing Grand Rounds: Strategies for Increased Engagement

Audience Level: Competent | Sub-Track: Technology

  • Rebecca Honor, FNP, RN, CCRN; Karen Buckley, MS, RN, PCCN, NPD-BC

Enhancing Nursing Professional Development: The Nursing Professional Development Associate Role

Audience Level: Competent | Sub-Track: Healthy Work Environment 

  • Nikolina Jandric, MSNPA; Maureen Parhamovich

Unity Under Pressure: Excelling in Critical Care Simulation

Audience Level: Competent | Sub-Track: Technology

  • Kim Marshall, MSN, RN; Lauren E. Moran, MS, RN, NPD-BC, CNRN, SCRN Alicia Capetandes, MS, RN, CCRN Michele Sena, MS, RN, NPD-BC, CPAN

Regional Collaborative: Initiatives to Enhance Nursing Student Clinical Placements

Audience Level: Competent

  • Sarah Lesniak, MS, RN, NPD-BC, CSPHA; Jill Cohen, BA

Inquiry 

Implementation of a Structured Evidence Based Practice Fellowship Program

Audience Level: Competent

  • Alyssa Hawkins, MSN, RN, TNS, NPD-BC; Megan Brown, MSN, RN, NI-BC

Mission Possible: Use of Champions-for-Inquiry Reduces Unplanned Extubations

Audience Level: Competent

  • Allison Broomall, MSN, RN, NPD-BC, NNP-BC; Nicole Baker MSN, RN, RNC-NIC, C-ELBW Megan Iannuzzi BSN, RN, RNC-NIC, C-ELBW Janelle Tarleton BSN, RN

What's NEXT? Using Evidence to Reinvigorate a Nursing Externship Program

Audience Level: Competent | Sub-Track: Diversity & Inclusion

  • Carmen Mauldin, MSN, RN, NPD-BC; Kathryn Collier, MSN, RN

Leadership Academy 

Onboarding & Orientation

Implementing a New Orientation Structure

Audience Level: Competent | Sub-Track: Leadership

  • Lauren Danforth, MSN, RN, NPD-BC

Tiers of Joy: A TSAM Journey in Standardizing Nursing Orientation Process

Audience Level: Competent | Sub-Track: Leadership

  • Emily Dobrinska, MSN, RN, NPD-BC, CPN, PHN

Onboarding Program Evaluation in Smartsheet

Audience Level: Competent | Sub-Track: Technology

  • Angela Gauger, MSN, RN

Improving the RN Residency Program

Audience Level: Competent | Sub-Track: Leadership

  • Maria Gabriela Jinesta-Peralta. MSN, RN, NPD-BC, MEDSURG-BC

Checklist Champions: Boosting Competency Compliance Through Virtual Tools

Audience Level: Competent | Sub-Track: Technology

  • Jennifer McKinstry, MSN, RN-BC, NPD-BC

Standardized Orientation Pathways Across a Multi-Site Health System

Audience Level: Competent | Sub-Track: Leadership

  • Michelle Medina-Smuck, DNP, RN, NPD-BC

Competency Management

In NPD Practitioners, Does Competency Evaluation Impact Perception of Self-Competence?

Audience Level: Expert | Sub-Track: Leadership

  • Tara Neuner, DNP, RN, CCRN, NPD-BC

Getting it "Wright": Reimagining Competency Validations

Audience Level: Competent | Sub-Track: Leadership

  • Nicolet Rubin, MSN, RN, PCCN, NPD-BC

Competency Evaluation for NPD Practitioners: Understanding the "Wright" Way

Audience Level: Expert | Sub-Track: Leadership

  • William West,  MSN, RN, NPD-C, AGACNP-BC, AGCNS-BC, CCRN, CEN

Education

Innovation in Alternate Education Strategies Through Virtual Reality Simulation

Audience Level: Novice | Sub-Track: Technology

  • Joshua Vavra, MSN, RN, CCRN; Adam Benner, MSN, RN

Education or Performance? Identifying Needs and Delivery Methods

Audience Level: Competent | Sub-Track: Leadership

  • Victoria English, MSN, RN, CV-BC

Role Development

Enhancing the BSN Clinical Immersion Experience by Prioritizing Student Nurse Wellbeing

Audience Level: Competent | Sub-Track: Leadership

  • Christine D'Antonio, MSN-Ed., RN

Increasing Certification Rates for ULH Peace Hospital

Audience Level: Competent | Sub-Track: Leadership

  • Allison Deckel, MA BSN RN, PHM-BC, NPD-BC    

Building Preceptor Confidence in Giving Feedback to Orientees

Audience Level: Competent | Sub-Track: Leadership

  • Megan Duncan, EdD, MSN-Ed, RN

Implementation of a Nursing Assistant Academy

Audience Level: Expert | Sub-Track: Leadership

  • Amanda Forsyth, MBA, MA, RN

Engaging Mental Health Workers to Reduce Safety Events

Audience Level: Competent | Sub-Track: Healthy Work Environment

  • Sandra R. Gary,MSN, RN, PMH-BC

Professional Development Workshop: A Part of Nursing Professional Practice Fellowship

Audience Level: Competent | Sub-Track: Leadership

  • Diane Hegedus, MSN, RN, PHRN, CEN, NPD-BC

Own Your Impact: Implementing Training to Address Charge Nurse Incivility

Audience Level: Competent | Sub-Track: Healthy Work Environment

  • Sarah Lewicki-Hendrix, MN, RN, NPD-BC, CCRN-K, CPN

Engagement to Retention: Decreasing Nursing Turnover through Participation in NRPs.

Audience Level: Competent | Sub-Track: Healthy Work Environment

  • Kristen N. Peloquin, MSN-Ed, RN, NPD-BC, CMSRN

SOAR Program - SOARing to New Heights

Audience Level: Competent | Sub-Track: Healthy Work Environment

  • Nicole Richardson, MSN, RN, NPD-BC

Collaborative Partnerships

Building the Future of Nursing: Development of a Student Nurse Tech Apprenticeship Program

Audience Level: Competent | Sub-Track: Leadership

  • Debbie Brigance, MSN, RN, NPD-BC

Clinical Nurse Specialist - Role Implementation

Audience Level: Expert | Sub-Track: Leadership

  • Wendy Wittenburg, MSN, RN, PMC-NE, NPD-BC

Inquiry

Getting Control: Reducing Readmission Rates and Optimizing Health with Technology

Audience Level: Competent | Sub-Track: Technology

  • Kristy Todd, MSN, RN, NPD-BC, ONC

Evidence-Based Practice Academy 

Onboarding & Orientation

Optimizing Orientation: Impact of Resource Time on Wellbeing and Retention

Audience Level: Competent

  • Sarah Gallagher, MSN, RN

Education

Connecting the Patient: Use of an Interdisciplinary Poverty Simulation at a Public Health System

Audience Level: Competent | Sub-Track: Diversity & Inclusion

  • Vanessa Chaski, MSN, RN, CMSRN, NPD-BC

Role Development

Targeted Training for Dedicated Education Unit Preceptors

Audience Level: Competent

  • Kendall Doyle, BSN, RN-BC

Inquiry

Improving Nurse Aide Retention 

Audience Level: Competent

  • Clayton Collins, MSN, RN, CPN, CNE

Ultrasound Guided IV Insertion Saves Time and Money

Audience Level: Competent

  • Aileen L. Lee, MSN-Ed, RN, CMSRN, VA-BC

Implementation of a Nurse Preceptor Online Toolkit

Audience Level: Competent

  • Kortney Welles, MSN, RN, CMSRN

From the Bottom Up: Targeted Education about Pressure Injury Prevention 

Audience Level: Competent | Sub-Track: Technology

  • Hannie Yu, MSN, RN, CMSRN, CAVRN, NPD-BC